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In the 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage, Raquel Welch and her colleagues were shrunk and injected in a miniature submarine into the circulatory system of a comatose scientist. Now we have a disposable miniaturized television camera that can be swallowed.

Physicians meet with a group of patients simultaneously during a 90-minute visit. Patients get improved access and education, and physicians improve productivity.

I hope to convince you that, in type 2 diabetes, insulin treatment should not be a last resort.

Gone is the “pyramid” approach. Now, as soon as the diagnosis is established, we start a disease-modifying antirheumatic drug, usually methotrexate.

A tiny ingestible video camera can image the entire length of the small intestine, formerly the black box of the gastrointestinal system.

New guidelines call for managing risk factors more aggressively than ever before, especially in people at high risk.

As many as one in five people report that they did not fill a prescription in the previous year because of the cost. Physicians can help by asking about the problem and applying simple strategies to limit the patient’s costs.